Video Equipment Taken From Business

Tom Hay, owner of the business at 1751 S. Dixie Highway, said the equipment was taken from a video room on the premises.

Hay believes someone may have hidden inside the business before it was locked at 7 p.m., police said. The missing items included three videotape recorders, a camera and a television monitor, police said.

GOLD CHAIN GRABBED FROM LOST MOTORIST

A gold chain was snatched Wednesday from a Margate woman who stopped to ask for directions on Hammondville Road, police said.

Helen Sussman, 70, of 6376 Brandywine Drive, said she was driving in the 1800 block of Hammondville Road when she pulled off to ask directions from a passer-by, police said.

But when Sussman rolled down her window to talk to the man, who was in his 20s and heavily-built, he reached in and grabbed her 18-inch gold chain, police said.

The man ran south, Sussman said, and she drove away and called police, they said.

PAINTER REPORTS THEFT OF $4,500 IN EQUIPMENT

More than $4,500 worth of paint-spraying equipment was reported stolen Tuesday from an apartment building at 2681 S. Course Drive, police said.

Matt Hando, a painter with Hando & Sons of Coral Springs, said the equipment was kept in a locked, ground-floor stairwell, police said.

Someone apparently got in from an upper floor, police said, and moved 25 gallons of paint to get at the equipment.

The stolen property included a $2,600 pressure cleaner and a $2,000 airless paint sprayer with a spray gun and attachments, police said. More than $4,000 worth of jewelry was reported stolen Wednesday from a house in the 1000 block of Southeast 12th Avenue, police said.

Steve Landes Pattison, the homeowner, said the jewelry was taken from a master bedroom.

Police said someone pried open a sliding glass door to get into the house, possibly with a stick found nearby.